Grande magazzino
Sears
Consigliato da 3 persone del luogo,
Permanentemente chiuso
Consigli della gente del posto
Kyung
March 26, 2019
The Boyle Heights building, completed in phases starting in 1927, attracted more than 100,000 curious visitors in its first month of operation, The Times reported that year. That didn't include shoppers at the company department store on the first floor. Sears employees filled mail orders by roller skating around the 200,000-square-foot floors picking up items and dropping them onto corkscrew slides for distribution by truck or rail. The Sears department store on the first floor is still in operation, but the catalog center closed in 1992 and the property was sold as part of a cost-cutting program. That left a hole in the neighborhood around Olympic and Soto Street, where the Sears complex employed more than 1,000 workers at the time it closed. The illuminated Sears sign atop a 14-story tower above the building was a beacon for Eastsiders returning home on area freeways for decades. The property is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
The Boyle Heights building, completed in phases starting in 1927, attracted more than 100,000 curious visitors in its first month of operation, The Times reported that year. That didn't include shoppers at the company department store on the first floor. Sears employees filled mail orders by roller…
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2650 E Olympic Blvd
Los Angeles, CA
Central LA